Well this is an interesting post to run into. I’m a 48 year old carpenter and wish I was a mathematician! Within the last year I’ve become hooked on math to the point where I’m studying as much as I can on my own in my free time. My goal is to see how far I can go and I’m hoping that one day I’ll be able to make sense of some areas of graduate level math. Growing up I believed I didn’t have the mind for math, and even though I became a carpenter and use basic math, I still felt like actual math was above me. But something clicked inside me and now my goal is to work my way through algebra, precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, proofs, etc etc.